Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (18/03/2007):
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:15:15PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:23 +0100, Thomas Huriaux wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The French manpages are encoded in utf-8 while they must be in
> > > iso-8859-1.
> > > 
> > > Adding the following options to the devscripts-po4a.conf file should fix
> > > the problem:
> > > 
> > > [po4a_alias:man] man opt_fr:"-L iso-8859-1"
> > > [po4a_alias:pod] pod opt_fr:"-L iso-8859-1"
> > > [po4a_alias:docbook] docbook opt_fr:"-L iso-8859-1"
> > 
> > Thanks for reporting this. I've updated the svn copy of
> > devscripts-po4a.conf with the above.
> 
> Doesn't that depend on your locale setting?  If you have fr_FR.UTF-8,
> won't you need utf-8 encoded manpages?  Should we create both
> encodings, and put the UTF-8 ones in /usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8 and the
> ISO8859-1 ones in /usr/share/man/fr.ISO8859-1?  After all, ISO8859-1
> is considered as a legacy encoding nowadays.

No, see /src/encoding.c in the man-db source package and #196762.

Cheers,

-- 
Thomas Huriaux

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